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GEORGE F. TAiix' ER AND MARIE E. M. 'i-llTING, OF BOSTON, MSS

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sPscuIcATIoN forming pm of Letters Patent No 740,172, einen sapzember29, 1903.

Be it known that we, GEORGE F. PARKER and )Mms E. )L WmTINu, of Boston,in the conntyof Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvenients in Pattern-Charts, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to pattern-charts for dress'makers and others,and has for its object to providea device of this character composed ofdifferent sections or members each of which can be so adjusted fordifferent sizes that its outer margin or edge may be used to mark theexact outline that the pattern is to have either directly upon a sheetof paper or upon the goods which are to be cut. 'l`o these ends theinvention consists of a sectional pattern-chart each member ol" whichcomprises a piuralityof sections relatively adjustable, so that oneforms au extensionpieee for the other, whereby a complete out line oredge may be obtained for outlining a pattern.

The invention further consists in details of structure and combinationsof parts substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the laccompanying drawings, Fig-ure 1 'represents in plan view oneembodiment of the invention as applied to the front member of thecomplete chart, it being understood that a complete waist-chartpreferably comprises fonrmenibers. Fig. 2 representsasection on line 2 2of Fig'. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section on line 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4represents a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents in planlView my invention as embodied in a side-front or under-armpiece member.Fig. 6 represents a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Figs. 7 and Srepresent in plan view my invention as embodied in the sideback and backmembers or sections, respectively, of the complete waist-chart. Fig. 9represents in plan View thesame invention embodied in aseam'iesspattern-chart, as hereinafter described. Fig. l0 represents thepattern-chart for cnttin g out the yoke or basque skirt to accompany thepiece of goods eut ont by the chart shown in Fig. 9.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the gures.

Referring first to Fig. 1, the front pattern- Application Sled June 5.1902. Serial lio. 310,279.

(No modem chart is composed ot' n main section a, which may or may notbe divided into two pieces secured together by a cloth or otherhingejoint, as indicated ata'. It is to be understood that the two pieces a a(shown in Fig. l) are never adjusted relatively to each other foroutlining purposes, said joint merely enabling one piece to be foldedover -upon the other for convenience when the pattern-clnrt is not inuse. Said section n is provided with an extensiou-piece b,\\'hich subsmntially completes the -outline of the chart, said extensioupiece Ilbeing provided with a subextension-piece c, which, with the sections aand 1, constitute the complete front pattern-chart. sections uv and boverlap each other and are relatively adjustable, as by means otparallel slots fl, formed-in one section, and guidepins c, projectedthrough said slots from the other section, said guidepins being threadedin an ordinary mannerand provided with setnutsf. The section b, whichforms an extcnsiou-pieee for the section a, is provided with anextension-piece c, as above nientoned, these sectiousb and c beingadjust-- ably secured together by means of a single slot-and-pinconnection l cf, aS shown. 0b-

viously the relative arrangement of the slots' and guide-pins may bereversed. For iustance, the connections between the sections aand b maybe made b v forming the slots in' the section b instead of in thesection a and having the pins project from the section a instead of thesection b.

Adjacent to each point of adjustment. formed by the slots, pins, andnuts just described there is a character-scale g to indicate sizesaccording to the degrees well known to and practiced bydressmakers.' Thecharacters of the scale are borne by the .section which is overlapped bythe other, so .that the adjustment of one section relatively to theother will successively expose or cover the diterent characters, theobject being to so arrange .these characters that the numeral indicatingthe size to which the pattern-chart member is adjusted shall be justexposed by the edge of the overlapping section. The characters of thescale just mentioned are mainly shown by full lines in the drawings,-

The three any other means constituting the equivalent of threaded pinsand setnuts may be s'nbstb tnted therefor.

By referring to Figs. l, 8, and 9, and par ticulnrly to Figs. l and S,it will beobserved thnt when the adjustments are nado to enable thecenter line et the Irontmember or the 'center line of the tinck memberto be nltered relatively to the xnnin section of each of seid membersthere is n simultaneous nd justrnent of the length oftheneck-cnrve. Thisis due to tlxefnct tlmt the end of the ndjustnble extensiompece in eachense meets the neck-curve and meets it tnngentinlly, mid instead ofnrmnging the numernls of t-lxe character-scale grso that they will beexposed beyond the outer edge of the super imposed section of eachmember alleles: may be formed in the latter (preferably adjacent totheset-nut, as shown. in Fig. 10,) und the scnle characters so arranged onthe lower section that they may be successively exposed through snidhole. This modified nrrnngenient is to be understood 'ns the fullequivalent of the other, the clrnmcters being exposed or covered by theedge of the hole instead of by the outer edge ofthe upper section.

We claim- 1. A pnttermchnrt comprising in its eon struction n body ormnin section having portions of its outline or edges .adapted toc0nstitnte guides for n marker nml including a.

neck-c1irve,-nnd an extension-piece having nu outline or edge adapted'to eopernte with- .5 the said guiding edges ol the ina-iu section toform n. complete device for outlining a pat tern, said extension-piecebei-ng connected to the body or main seetion'nndlaterally adjustablerelatively the-reto, one end of the etten sion-piece meetingtheneekeurvetangentinlly whereby said body land extensiompiece cenet to outline theneck-curve o! :t pattern, and whereby the location of t'ne center frontline or back line may be adjusted simultaneously with tlxendj nstment ofthe length' of the neckcnrve.

,2. A seamless pnttermclxnrt comprising two main sections and twoextensiompieces, the

main sections being ndjnstnbly connected together and theextension-pieces beingeonnected to the main sections, the four sectionsspecified bein-g formed te ont-line a complete waist-pattern, each nminsection nelndinga neck-curve and each extension-piece being laterallyadjustable relatively to the main Vsection and hmingone end meeting thelneel:-

cnrve of the :nain section tnngentinllywlxereby each mnin section andextension-piece conct to outline the neck-curve of the pattern, andwhereby the location of the center front line or back lino may beadjusted simultaneously with the adjustment'. )f the length of Intestimony whereof we have affixed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses. GEORGE F. PARKER. MARIE E. M. WHITING.

Witnesses:

y HORACE BROWN,

v Roer-:RT 1I. MARSH.

